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[Dirty Hipsters]

Reliable hatchet/tomahawk/pick & rope
The tool's many uses are obvious, but the rope is the important thing here. And a big point: learn how to use rope BEFORE the end of the world.

I'd grab a nice big knife over a tomahawk/hatchet any day. You can cut wood with a large fixed blade knife just as easily as with a hatchet if you baton it, plus a knife is just much more versatile in a lot more situations, and usually lighter and easier to carry and use.